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      <p>Berkeley DB installs the following files into the following locations,
with the following default values:</p>
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              <td>--prefix</td>
              <td>/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.<span class="bold"><strong>Major</strong></span>.<span class="bold"><strong>Minor</strong></span></td>
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              <td>--exec_prefix</td>
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              <td>--bindir</td>
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              <td>--includedir</td>
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              <td>include files</td>
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              <td>libraries</td>
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              <td>utilities</td>
              <td>$(bindir)</td>
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      <p>With one exception, this follows the GNU Autoconf and GNU Coding
Standards installation guidelines; please see that documentation for
more information and rationale.</p>
      <p>The single exception is the Berkeley DB documentation.  The
Berkeley DB documentation is provided in HTML format, not in
UNIX-style man or GNU info format.  For this reason, Berkeley DB
configuration does not support <span class="bold"><strong>--infodir</strong></span> or <span class="bold"><strong>--mandir</strong></span>.
To change the default installation location for the Berkeley DB
documentation, modify the Makefile variable, <span class="bold"><strong>docdir</strong></span>.</p>
      <p>When installing Berkeley DB on filesystems shared by machines of
different architectures, please note that although Berkeley DB
include files are installed based on the value of $(prefix), rather than
$(exec_prefix), the Berkeley DB include files are not always
architecture independent.</p>
      <p>To move the entire installation tree to somewhere besides
<span class="bold"><strong>/usr/local</strong></span>, change the value of <span class="bold"><strong>prefix</strong></span>.</p>
      <p>To move the binaries and libraries to a different location, change the
value of <span class="bold"><strong>exec_prefix</strong></span>.  The values of <span class="bold"><strong>includedir</strong></span> and
<span class="bold"><strong>libdir</strong></span> may be similarly changed.</p>
      <p>Any of these values except for <span class="bold"><strong>docdir</strong></span> may be set as part of
the configuration:</p>
      <pre class="programlisting">prompt: ../dist/configure --bindir=/usr/local/bin</pre>
      <p>Any of these values, including <span class="bold"><strong>docdir</strong></span>, may be changed when doing
the install itself:</p>
      <pre class="programlisting">prompt: make prefix=/usr/contrib/bdb install</pre>
      <p>The Berkeley DB installation process will attempt to create any
directories that do not already exist on the system.</p>
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